Fortunately I have the full line of plasma weapons (I can never remember which one has each name, save for the Tormentor) at G5 and fully modded, so I can always use them; also finally have a reason to use all the non-Tormentor ones.
Then Frontier realized a hitscan weapon with long distance capabilities would probably render the Executioner redundant.
Hmmm. I have spent significant time in missions, after completing the objectives just to kill revs, to the extent of frequently 4+ million credits in combat bonds. Just studying the behaviors and timing of revs and drops. I have noticed that if you quickly kill all the revs in a drop, then repeat a second time, there’s a repeatable ~40ish second delay before the next drop. I use this to quickly rearm/charge and then high-tail it out of the base on foot to recall my ship. I have had poor luck with SRV’s but great success using this method to exfiltrate. Maybe I need to follow the SRV methods in this thread. There’s probably a little more to be learned here.
Yeh I have noticed this too, it's definitely not instant. I don't think what I experienced here in any way contradicts it, it just tells me the scouts don't always drop every time you kill a revenant. Knowing this game, they just threw an RNG event in there.
The ships' beam lasers also have two barrels.
Yes, but those are beam lasers, not pulse lasers. All of the handheld laser weapons fire in a pulse fashion, not a continuous beam.
Interesting. Perhaps my Federal Dropship build will work after all. Please note, the shield is only for preventing hull damage while trying to repeatedly land on rough terrain and/or absorb some fire from scouts. Against anything else, it will be shut off and I will go into silent running.Can confirm these missions are doable with zero engineering, even if you get interdicted a number of times. Managed it in a tanked up dolphin with one heat sink left (standard, getting the pre-e ones soon). G1 maverick and didn't use a weapon.
The dolphin had 76% hull left, mostly taken by an interceptor that hyperdicted me (pre heat sink works well but that top speed is slow so I got hit by a few salvos).
Only test left is if it can evade two Glaives. Should be OK though.
How are Glaive hyper/interdictions treating you?Can confirm these missions are doable with zero engineering, even if you get interdicted a number of times. Managed it in a tanked up dolphin with one heat sink left (standard, getting the pre-e ones soon). G1 maverick and didn't use a weapon.
The dolphin had 76% hull left, mostly taken by an interceptor that hyperdicted me (pre heat sink works well but that top speed is slow so I got hit by a few salvos).
Only test left is if it can evade two Glaives. Should be OK though.
Not had one since but have been busy irl for the last two nights.
Hah good science. Do you even get anything for the scan though?
Yeah, I published a video a couple of pages back, but the video doesn't appears...
Very interesting Dolphin build! I've got a Dolphin sitting in storage somewhere (couldn't make it more viable than Orca for passengers), so I may give this build a try. If it works, the only downside will be I won't have a use for the FDS I equipped for these missions; I wanted to finally get some use out the FDS I've had laying around for some time. Then again, it has been such a pain to land both the FDS and FAS on planets (terrain is rough, but icon remains blue and the ship never fully lands) that maybe I shouldn't worry about changing.
I only used them as I wasn't able to fit any AX stuff (size two is the lowest size) and they have lots more ammo than the original missile racks. Revenants are pretty weak, when all's said and done and they have no shields. A double-tap (firing both once) will one shot them. I just use basic ammo. Not tested a single shot yet, but probably will as this would increase the total ammo count.
